For information concerning 2006 education underwriting opportunities, sponsoring opportunities, or to inquire about becoming an exhibitor please contact:

Michelle Mohr
Director of Business Development
The World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress

  Tel: 781.939.2419 (direct)

  Fax: 781.939.2523

  [email protected]

2005 Sponsors

Platiunum Sponsor

Booz Allen Hamilton has been at the forefront of management consulting for businesses and governments for over 90 years. Booz Allen, a global strategy and technology consulting firm, works with clients to deliver results that endure.

With more than 16,000 employees on six continents, the firm generates annual sales of $3.3 billion. Booz Allen provides services in strategy, organization, operations, systems, and technology to the world’s leading corporations, government and other public agencies, emerging growth companies, and institutions.

To learn more about the firm, visit the Booz Allen Web site at www.boozallen.com. To learn more about the best ideas in business, visit www.strategy-business.com, the Web site for strategy+business, a quarterly journal sponsored by Booz Allen.

Seminar Sponsor

Radianse, Inc., Lawrence, Mass., (www.radianse.com) provides active-RFID indoor positioning solutions to locate and associate medical equipment, patients and staff. The company's applications for asset tracking, patient location, real-time alerts and workflow measurement have helped university, regional and community hospitals achieve impressive returns, including:

43% OR throughput gains measured
10% reduction in lost equipment
60% fewer calls for patient status
20% reduction in overtime
70% OR utilization

Seminar Sponsor

ZivaContinuum is committed to designing and developing innovative tools that empower healthcare consumers and their caregivers –professional and family—to navigate the often difficult healthcare maze. Through personalization, customization and localization, ZivaContinuum delivers unbiased, relevant and functional healthcare information to millions of individuals across the nation, according to their personally identified needs. For more information, visit www.zivacontinuum.com

Technology Partner

VisionTree Software's patented line of user-friendly decision making technologies helps patients, physicians and healthcare organizations make decisions and plans with a high level of quality and efficiency.

VisionTree has delivered significant and measurable improvement in the documentation, accountability and data collection of decision making, strategic planning and large group interaction. See the VisionTree technology in action during the WHITC event for real-time, two-way data driven audience participation.

Visit www.visiontree.com to learn more about VisionTree healthcare solutions for your practice and organization.

2005 Educational Underwriters

GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, performance improvement, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform and treat disease, so their patients can live their lives to the fullest.

GE Healthcare's broad range of products and services enable healthcare providers to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases, and other conditions earlier. Our vision for the future is to enable a new "early health" model of care focused on earlier diagnosis, pre-symptomatic disease detection and disease prevention. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $15 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 43,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. www.gehealthcare.com

About Performance Solutions

Since 1998, GE Healthcare's Performance Solutions group has combined highly skilled people with proven methodologies and GE best practices to assist healthcare organizations in achieving their strategic goals. Working with Performance Solutions, customers are able to implement a common vision, improve operational, clinical and financial outcomes, maximize market share opportunities and develop strong leadership systems. This comprehensive approach can set hospitals and health systems on a path to true organizational transformation and ultimately raise the quality and safety of patient care. Contact us on the web at www.gehealthcare.com/solutions, or by email at [email protected].

IBM Healthcare & Life Sciences brings together IBM resources, including information technology, deep industry insights, and research expertise, to help clients develop and deliver safer, more affordable and more effective diagnostics, drugs and medical care. For more information, please visit the IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences Web site at: http://www.ibm.com/industries/healthcare

Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services, and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. Together with its industry partners, Microsoft helps healthcare and life sciences organizations improve health and reduce costs through innovations that are simple by design, improve collaboration and take advantage of existing investments. Please see our website at www.microsoft.com.

MyMedicalRecords.com is a privately held corporation based in Los Angeles that empowers consumers to take greater control over their health and well-being by providing a virtual safe-deposit box for storing, managing and sharing their medical records and other vital documents -- such as living wills, birth certificates and insurance policies -- in a secure and easy-to-use online database. Subscribers can store their documents and images in a standard .PDF format, which can be viewed and shared from any personal computer connected to the Internet. For more information or to take a multimedia Flash tour of the Web site, visit www.mymedicalrecords.com or call 1-888-808-4667, Ext. 129.

2005 Exhibitors

Providing healthcare is a $600 billion industry in the US, involving mostly not-for-profit organizations which experience significant challenges in collecting revenues owed to them by government payors, insurance companies and patients. Beyond direct patient care services these revenue cycle issues are among the most critical facing healthcare providers, which on average only make about 2% in operating margins. The revenue cycle is a tremendously complex continuum of integrated functions ranging from pre-registration, scheduling and admissions; to medical records and coding; to billing, collections and contractual compliance. Superior revenue cycle performance provides the margins and investment capital required to enhance medical services and address unmet community needs.

Accretive Health is a built-for-purpose company with the sole focus of generating significant, sustainable improvements in net revenue for healthcare providers through dramatically improved revenue cycle processes and execution rigor.

The result is to more than double average operating margins while improving patient satisfaction from fast efficient registration all the way through patient friendly billing. Our revenue cycle operating model also provides extensive capabilities in identifying and securing funding for uninsured patients going beyond conventional Medicaid and disability programs.
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Booz Allen Hamilton has been at the forefront of management consulting for businesses and governments for over 90 years. Booz Allen, a global strategy and technology consulting firm, works with clients to deliver results that endure.

With more than 16,000 employees on six continents, the firm generates annual sales of $3.3 billion. Booz Allen provides services in strategy, organization, operations, systems, and technology to the world’s leading corporations, government and other public agencies, emerging growth companies, and institutions.

To learn more about the firm, visit the Booz Allen Web site at www.boozallen.com. To learn more about the best ideas in business, visit www.strategy-business.com, the Web site for strategy+business, a quarterly journal sponsored by Booz Allen.

Care Fusion is a leading provider of enterprise positive patient identification solutions at the bedside for nursing, laboratory and blood bank personnel. Care Fusion offers a suite of barcode enabled positive patient identification products that include: wCareMed™ to support medication administration, allergy warnings, safety alerts and complex IVs; wCareCollect™ to verify and label lab specimens; wBloodCare™ to verify blood products prior to transfusion; wCareAssist™ to record vital signs and patient care information; wCareView™ for a consolidated view of patient data; and wCareCapture™ for point of care billing of supplies. One Vendor. One Device. Many Powerful Solutions. For more information on Care Fusion's wireless barcode solutions, visit www.carefusion.com

The Center for Health Transformation, founded by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, is a collaboration of public and private sector leaders dedicated to the creation of a 21st Century Intelligent Health System in which knowledge saves lives and saves money for every American. The Center accelerates the adoption of transformational solutions for better health and more choices at lower cost by acting as a catalyst to spur transformational change, identifying and sharing solutions with a wide array of opinion leaders and decision-makers, and helping to create and advance public policies consistent with the vision and principles of a 21st century, intelligent health system.

Cisco Systems is a worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, creating solutions that allow individuals, companies, and countries to increase productivity, improve customer satisfaction and strengthen competitive advantage. The Cisco name has become synonymous with the Internet - their vision is to change the way people work, live, play and learn. www.cisco.com/go/healthcare

Healthvision creates ‘Connected Healthcare Communities’ by helping market leaders quickly and cost-effectively plan for and deliver patient-centric information via shared health information exchanges. Healthvision’s capabilities cover the spectrum of needs ranging from a suite of strategic consulting services to web-based infrastructure and applications – all designed to enhance decision making and effectiveness. Healthvision’s web-based infrastructure, is the most widely used in the industry, hosting more than 7.5 million unique patient records. For more information go to www.healthvision.com

The NaviCare® Operations Management System is a suite of real-time solutions to healthcare's capacity, patient-flow and communication problems. Using visual, audio and operational alerts, NaviCare becomes your CareTraffic Control System. www.hill-rom.com

Initiate Systems is the proven leader in enterprise master person index (EMPI) software and data remediation services. By empowering people and systems with the most accurate, complete and up-to-date information on demand, Initiate Systems' software enables clinical initiatives at all points of encounter, reduces safety risk and improves revenue cycle management while conforming to HIPAA and other regulations.

MaxMD, the official provider of .md domain names in the U.S. and over 90 countries worldwide, provides personalized Web addresses for physicians, allied healthcare providers, medical associations, healthcare corporations, and medical institutions in the only Internet domain dedicated to the medical community. Additional offerings including online medical resources facilitate and enhance patient management and communication with healthcare providers in new and innovative ways. Visit www.max.md to learn more.

For nearly ten years, MedVentive has worked with leading academic hospitals, physicians, and health plans to develop and deploy innovative, clinically sophisticated approaches to successfully reduce healthcare costs and improve quality. Healthcare providers, payor organizations and self insured employers use MedVentive's technology and services to identity their greatest healthcare improvement opportunities and act quickly and efficiently to effect change through customized interventions.

Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services, and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. Together with its industry partners, Microsoft helps healthcare and life sciences organizations improve health and reduce costs through innovations that are simple by design, improve collaboration and take advantage of existing investments. Please see our website at www.microsoft.com.

Monster is the worlds leading on-line career site, with simple, reliable and inexpensive hiring tools to give employers everything they need to hire the right employees quickly and conveniently. To learn more about how Monster Healthcare can benefit your organization visit: healthcaresolutions.monster.com.

MyMedicalRecords.com is a privately held corporation based in Los Angeles that empowers consumers to take greater control over their health and well-being by providing a virtual safe-deposit box for storing, managing and sharing their medical records and other vital documents -- such as living wills, birth certificates and insurance policies -- in a secure and easy-to-use online database. Subscribers can store their documents and images in a standard .PDF format, which can be viewed and shared from any personal computer connected to the Internet. For more information or to take a multimedia Flash tour of the Web site, visit www.mymedicalrecords.com or call 1-888-808-4667, Ext. 129.

Introducing MyriadHealth: The world’s first Direct Data Entry (DDE) system for healthcare. Using the MyriadHealth platform to file a claim means ONLINE, REAL-TIME submission, adjudication and payment of claims (patent pending). We reduce total healthcare costs by 30%-35% while improving efficiency and increasing the quality of care. There is no hardware or software to buy. EVER. It’s as simple as Enter, Submit, Paid!

PanGo is the leading provider of Wi-Fi-based asset tracking solutions. PanGo's medical RFID solutions leverage existing wireless networks to provide real-time asset visibility and seamlessly integrate with hospital workflow systems, resulting in better patient care, optimal resource utilization and improved operating efficiency.

Radianse, Inc., Lawrence, Mass., (www.radianse.com) provides active-RFID indoor positioning solutions to locate and associate medical equipment, patients and staff. The company's applications for asset tracking, patient location, real-time alerts and workflow measurement have helped university, regional and community hospitals achieve impressive returns, including:

43% OR throughput gains measured
10% reduction in lost equipment
60% fewer calls for patient status
20% reduction in overtime
70% OR utilization

RMS Services is the sole Business Service Provider in healthcare offering file and file room solutions. Headquartered in Southfield, Mich., RMS has pioneered transition techniques that improves efficiency and provides the means for digital transition. Founded in 1975, the company operates 19 medical records centers for 22 hospital systems. For more information, please visit www.rmsservices.com.

Since 1993, rl Solutions has been providing healthcare organizations with risk management and customer service solutions that are easy to implement and globally accessible. With hundreds of clients and offices across North America and Australia, rL Solutions' vision is a world where customer experience in healthcare is second to none. www.rl-solutions.com

Softheon provides end-to-end Business Process Software Solutions that drive bottom line benefits in health payers, empowering them to improve competitiveness and comply with regulations. Softheon's Process Optimization Framework combines imaging and document management, workflow, business process management and analysis, data integration and reporting software. It is deployed in areas like enrollment, claim processing, provider credentialing and contracting, grievance and appeals and Medicare Part D management. Headquartered in Hauppauge, New York, Softheon can be reached at 631-390-1100 or via the Internet at www.softheon.com.

Softricity® helps enterprises simplify and accelerate their entire software management and deployments with SoftGrid® - the industry's first application virtualization infrastructure solution - reliably and cost-effectively for past, present and future applications.

Spoken Translation, Inc. (www.SpokenTranslation.com) creates ground-breaking software systems for real-time cross-lingual communication. Our mission is to enable wide-ranging conversations across language barriers. Converser for Healthcare, is the world’s first software system for translation of spoken, typed, or handwritten conversations between speakers of English and Spanish.

Treatment Online provides corporations, mental health professionals and individuals with tools for effectively and efficiently addressing mental health issues. Innovative application of the internet, combined with access to qualified professionals and screening tools, allows Treatment Online to deliver a level of quality and professionalism previously available only through one-on-one methods. Come visit us at www.treatmentonline.com or at our education division at www.toleducation.com.

VisionTree Software's patented line of user-friendly decision making technologies helps patients, physicians and healthcare organizations make decisions and plans with a high level of quality and efficiency.

VisionTree has delivered significant and measurable improvement in the documentation, accountability and data collection of decision making, strategic planning and large group interaction. See the VisionTree technology in action during the WHITC event for real-time, two-way data driven audience participation.

Visit www.visiontree.com to learn more about VisionTree healthcare solutions for your practice and organization.

ZivaContinuum is committed to designing and developing innovative tools that empower healthcare consumers and their caregivers –professional and family—to navigate the often difficult healthcare maze. Through personalization, customization and localization, ZivaContinuum delivers unbiased, relevant and functional healthcare information to millions of individuals across the nation, according to their personally identified needs. For more information, visit www.zivacontinuum.com

2005 Partners

The American Medical Group Association (AMGA) represents medical groups, including some of the nation’s largest, most prestigious integrated healthcare delivery systems. AMGA advocates for the multispecialty medical group model of healthcare delivery and for the patients served by medical groups through innovation and information sharing, benchmarking, leadership development, and continuous striving to improve patient care. The members of AMGA deliver health care to more than 50 million patients in 42 states, including 15 million capitated lives. Headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, AMGA is the strategic partner for medical groups providing a comprehensive package of benefits, including political advocacy, educational and networking programs and publications, benchmarking data services, and financial and operations assistance.Please visit www.amga.org for more information.

AMDIS, the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems, is the premier non profit physician membership organization dedicated to advance the field of applied medical informatics and improve the practice of medicine by the direct physician use of information technology. AMDIS is the home for the “connected” CMIO. Over 1200 AMDIS physician members and 100 non physician associate members participate in the many AMDIS sponsored programs throughout the year. For information visit www.amdis.org or email [email protected].

Subscribe to Briefings on Quality Improvement and Data Reporting: Strategies to improve patient outcomes and compliance to receive all the hands-on advice, tools (including data collection forms), and best practices you need to make sure your hospital achieves high scores on its quality measures and receives every penny of the Medicare reimbursement it deserves. It takes just 30 minutes to read this quality resource, while the rewards last all month. We've priced this monthly resource with your budget in mind - about $100 less than other quality newsletters! Go to www.hcmarketplace.com or call 800/650-6787 to start your subscription or request a free sample.

This conference is supported by Consumer Driven Healthcare, the dramatic monthly newsletter designed to help health care organizations respond effectively to the shift in market power, become consumer-centric, and position themselves for long-term success in the new consumer-driven marketplace. For a free trial subscription or for more information, call toll-free 1-800-597-6300 or visit www.nhionline.net.

HCPro is pleased to introduce Electronic Health Records Briefings, a monthly 12-page newsletter designed to help ease the transition from paper to electronic records. Electronic Health Records Briefings offers HIM supervisors, directors, and managers practical advice on legal concerns, testing and training, physician buy-in, return on investment, change management, and every other topic related to the electronic record transition. Go to www.hcmarketplace.com to place an order.

This conference is supported by EMR Advisor, an affordable yet invaluable monthly guide that will give you the practical information, advice, and real-world strategies you’ll need to ensure a smoothly operating system and a return well beyond your considerable investment. For a free trial subscription or for more information, call toll-free 1-800-597-6300 or visit www.nhionline.net.

Future Healthcare provides an invaluable service to the physicians and healthcare professionals by evaluating the new and emerging technologies and therapies, whilst examining how these innovations will impact the end-users who are committed to increasing levels of patient care.

The quarterly journal combines the resources of Analysts in Media, with the leading medical associations, and world-class editorial from the key opinion leaders who are shaping the future of the medical industry, to deliver an informed and concise guide on purchasing choices to the healthcare decision-maker. Future Healthcare is essential reading for its 35,000 physicians, senior executives, hospitals, and clinics throughout the US, that are at the forefront of purchasing decisions in healthcare. www.futurehealthcareus.com

These are wildly changing times for managed care. States are vigorously enforcing countless conflicting laws, providers are joining forces for more bargaining power than ever before, HMOs are taking a beating in the court of public opinion, and medical costs are skyrocketing. But you can see it all coming while you still have time to react with the Managed Care Report, a biweekly update on managed care from the health policy and business experts at Medicine & Health.

Medical Records Briefing is a respected monthly newsletter that provides the best new ideas in health information management, plus a whole set of professional resources to benefit the medical records department. Each issue is full of crucial information such as the latest Medicare changes; practical advice on tough legal, financial, privacy, and human resource issues; as well as real-life success stories from other managers. Go to www.hcmarketplace.com to place an order.

Medicare Legislation and Regulation is your one-stop shop for the latest news and analysis on where it's at and where things are heading in the complicated world of Medicare policy making. From new bills on Capitol Hill to CMS program directives that could change the way you do business, our editors will give you the straight scoop on the latest Medicare developments - 45 times a year.

Medicine & Health: For more than 50 years health care leaders and executives have turned to Medicine & Health for insight and analysis on the world of health care policy. You can rely on our well-developed contacts with the most influential players in health care, including congressmen, the White House, researchers and top health policy officials.

Performance Improvement Advisor is the only publication guaranteed to help healthcare organizations like yours boost performance and enhance quality. For a free trial subscription or for more information, call toll-free 1-800-597-6300 or visit www.nhionline.net.

PharmaVOICE is the executive forum that allows business leaders to engage in a candid dialogue on the myriad challenges and trends impacting the life-sciences industry. PharmaVOICE reaches more than 17,000 U.S.-based executives who influence business strategies and affect change. Published monthly, PharmaVOICE provides readers with insightful and thought-provoking commentary in a multiple-perspective format through its forums, topics, and articles that cover a range of issues from molecule through market. To Raise Your VOICE, contact [email protected].